Content about LGBT stereotypes

Hannah, a content manager with a publishing company, understands why coming out can be difficult for those who wish to maintain a private life

How to come out and be out at work can be a minefield whatever your situation, but I'm going to write about it from the perspective of being a single gay person in the workplace.

To give some background, when I first came out (relatively late at the age of 26), it was a painful time as it was linked to the end of a very complex friendship. It was all I could do to hold it together at that time, and as such, the last thing I wanted to do was share my pain at work.

'If we conjured Kim Kardashian out of nothing can't we do the same with a gay badass who fights crime?'

Tuc Watkins, best known for playing straight on the daytime soap One Life to Live and gay on the primetime soap Desperate Housewives, wants to see Hollywood create a wider array of gay characters.

'Yes, different gay characters are trickling in,' Watkins writes in a Facebook post Tuesday (30 December). 'But Hollywood is the gatekeeper of the cultural lexicon. We set the pace. Let's step it up. America can handle it.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure features a stereotypical gay Superman who minces on stage topless

A new show at Universal Studios Hollywood has come under fire for its homophobic portrayal of gay people.

Bill And Ted's Excellent Halloween Adventure, part of Universal Studio's annual Halloween Horror Nights, features the protagonists from the popular 1989 comedy having an adventure in Oz. The pair meet Superman, who is turned gay by 'fairy dust' sprinkled from a witch.

Upon turning gay, Superman quickly becomes a stereotypical caricature of gay men - taking off his top, speaking with an effeminate lisp, and mincing around on stage.

Gay designers enjoy dressing women as they're creating the female version of themselves

It's true that modern fashion was, technically, started by women. In the early 20th century, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel shocked Parisian high society with her forward thinking designs and alteration of the traditional silhouette favoured by the bourgeois.

Many women followed suit, such as Elsa Schiaparelli and Madeleine Vionnet, completely changing the face of fashion.

It took gay men a while to identify with this new industry, even longer for society to accept the fact that, men too, could be creative and understand women's clothing.

A study claims that media coverage of research on same-sex animal behavior promotes negative stereotypes of gays and lesbians.

Dr Andrew Barron from Australia's Macquarie University and Dr Mark Brown from Royal Holloway University of London found that scientific reports on gay behavior in animals were exploited by the media for 'titillation and humor' or suggest that homosexuality can be cured.